Building Thinking Skills Level 2 Software (Grades 4th-6th)

Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills.

Grade(s): 4-6
Subject: Critical Thinking
ISBN: 0-89455-895-1
Activities: 104

Description & Features

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they:

• Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics.
• Distinguish similarities and differences.
• Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.

These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

In this software adventure, you and your team of critical thinkers must complete the verbal and figural activities in each of the 10 underground levels to rescue Dr. Cognito and restore order to the lab. With both verbal and graphic instructions, this lively adventure nurtures independent learning, superior thinking, and communication skills.

Software Features


• 38 Activities / over 800 questions
• Can be played in adventure mode or practice mode
• On-screen and printable instructions
• Adjust difficulty levels - so learning is always stimulating, never frustrating
• Printable sample activities & vocabulary list
• Self-grading - printable scores
• Saves unfinished games
• Fun word puzzles

Test Preparation
Building Thinking Skills includes reading, writing, figural-spatial, logic, and math-related activities to prepare students for high levels of success on a wide variety of assessment tests, including:
STATE ASSESSMENT TESTS	OTHER ASSESSMENT TESTS
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®) Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS™) California Achievement Tests (CAT/6) Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Kansas State Assessments Ohio Proficiency Test North Carolina Competency Test in Reading Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL)	Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/9; SAT/10) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT-8) Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT) GED Tests TerraNova (CTBS-5) and Terra Nova, The Second Edition Woodcock-Johnson® Tests (WJ/III® and WJ/R®) Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WISC-III; WISC-IV and WAIS-III) Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R) and many more!